Mission: Nepal 2016

Megh on Mission: Nepal 2013 in front of a church in Nepal’s Mid-West that he and Climbing For Christ helped build.
Nationality: Nepalese. Occupation: Worker to expand the Kingdom of God and guide leading trekking teams all over Nepal and Tibet. Missions with C4C: Nepal 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 (although Climbing For Christ was introduced to Megh in 2008).
How long have you climbed? Ten years. Type of climbing you do: Trekking. Helping Climbing For Christ when teams are in Nepal and doing the follow-up for those who are saved through C4C.
Highlight of climbing career:...
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Giving gifts and much more to orphans at CHRISTmas
By Elaine Fallesen
Family Ministry, Climbing For Christ
Striking an Audrey Hepburn pose, Phiri Nakhumwa looked ready to dance her way through Paris in her new beret, pretty-in-pink laced top, striped skirt and flats, while clutching her new red and black plaid school bag. It was easy to see she was enjoying her special CHRISTmas gifts.
Esnart shows off her new outfit and school bag, purchased through the generosity of Project 1:27 Malawi sponsors. (Malawi photos by Duncan Nyozani)
Phiri, better known in her Climbing For Chri...
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One of several valleys trekked by C4C teams visiting Nepal’s Far West district of Huma. (Photo by Gary Fallesen)
“Those are the people who are here to ruin our religion,” the Buddhist monk muttered as he walked away from our team in Simikot, a town in Nepal’s northwestern district of Humla. We were there to dedicate a newly built church (the district’s first and our fourth blessed build in Nepal).
In 2012, God led us to Humla, where we met seven Christian men in one village and a brother and sister who believed in Jesus in another village. They wer...
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The newly built church at Simikot. (Photo by Pastor Harka)
Christ, our cornerstone
By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ
“What is this church building constructed from?” I asked our Nepali brothers and sisters in Christ as they sat on the ground inside what was then an unfinished structure.
The correct answer: stones.
“What is our foundation as a church body?” I asked.
Answer: God.
“God tells the prophet Isaiah (in Isaiah 28:16), ‘I am the One who has laid as a foundation … a stone, a tested stone, a precious cor...
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The seed of the church
By Gary Fallesen, Climbing For Christ founding president
A word of encouragement when you are behind the enemy’s line can go a long way. Be it in an email or a text or a message passed along during a satellite phone call. Knowing you are being prayed for and followed through daily Dispatches is a tremendous blessing.
Positive feedback after a trip can also provide affirmation. It’s great hearing from Climbing For Christ members and supporters who have taken the mission to heart.
Jan Hartung, a member from C4C’s hometown of Rochester, NY, USA, ...
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The church at Simikot under construction on Sept. 27. (Photo by Brandy Fisher)
CLICK HERE to read the Mission: Nepal 2016, Part 2 Trip Report, “The seed of the church.”
Photos of the Week are for sale – 8-by-12-inch prints suitable for framing – for $25 plus shipping. Email your order to info@ClimbingForChrist.org. Your support will help put us in places where we can take more pictures as witnesses of our Triune God.
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Mission: Nepal 2016, Part 2
Saturday, Sept. 17-Friday, Sept. 30
By Gary Fallesen
Climbing For Christ
Friday, Sept. 30
The mountain-side village of Takla, right, under heavy clouds earlier this week. (Photos by Gary Fallesen)
We all carry different memories home from a trip like this one. For me, the encounter with Dankse, the grieving father in Takla, will remain etched on my heart [see Sunday, Sept. 25 and Monday, Sept. 26]. As we returned to our respective homes today (Brandy and Matthew to western Canada and Jesse and me to Western New York) I was praying for Dankse and how the ...
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Summit selfie: Jesse with his fiancé Stephanie in New York’s High Peaks in August 2016.
Nationality: American. Occupation: Supervisor, University of Rochester Medical Center supply chain. Missions with C4C: Mexico 2005, Dominican Republic/Haiti 2005, Kilimanjaro 2007, China 2008, Peru 2011, and Nepal 2016.
How long have you climbed? 20 years. Type of climbing you do: Mountaineering/hiking. Highlight of climbing career: Most recently, summiting Mount Marcy (New York State’s Adirondacks) with my fiancé Stephanie.
How long have you been a Christian? Since ba...
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The church being built at Simikot on Sept. 6. (Photo by Pastor Harka)
CLICK HERE to read daily Dispatches from Mission: Nepal 2016, Part 2.
Photos of the Week are for sale – 8-by-12-inch prints suitable for framing – for $25 plus shipping. Email your order to info@ClimbingForChrist.org. Your support will help put us in places where we can take more pictures as witnesses of our Triune God.
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On these rocks we will build His church
The monsoon season followed by the harvest of crops delayed work on the church building in Simikot in Nepal’s Far West district of Humla. But materials have been purchased and all the timber and rocks are ready to be made into a house of worship in a place where once no church existed.
It is the prayerful hope of Climbing For Christ workers that the church will be completed in August and dedicated to the Lord by our Mission: Nepal team in September.
Working the land to grow a church in Humla.
“They are hurrying...
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Working the land to grow a church in Humla.
This is the fourth church in Nepal and ninth overall that God has used C4C to build.
CLICK HERE to read our Mission Moments story, “On these rocks we will build His church.”
Photos of the Week are for sale – 8-by-12-inch prints suitable for framing – for $25 plus shipping. Email your order to info@ClimbingForChrist.org. Your support will help put us in places where we can take more pictures as witnesses of our Triune God.
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Church alive and growing in Nepal’s Mid-West
Story by Gary Fallesen / photos by Megh Gurung
Crowding in to hear the Word of God.
The monsoon season could not keep brother Megh from his appointed rounds in Rolpa, the Mid-West district we were intending to visit during Mission: Nepal 2016 (Part 1) in April. Megh and his wife Bhim were sent to visit the church we helped build and the many offshoots of that healthy body in Korchabang.
“Having heavy rains everywhere, along the way (the route) was disturbed by landslides and the (road was) washed away,” Me...
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Joy among God’s angels … times 35
Hearing the Good News in a Central Region village. (Photos by Megh Gurung)
The hound of heaven refused to give up on the people in Sandan village. “The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness,” 2 Peter 3:9 (ESV) tells us, “but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.”
“That village called Sandan, there was not anybody who was Christian,” said Megh Gurung, a Nepali C4C member and partner in ministry. “They were fol...
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The Great Awakening
By Elaine Fallesen
Family Ministry, Climbing For Christ
One man wakes, awakens another.
Second one wakes his next door brother.
Three awake can rouse a town and turn the whole place upside down.
Many awake will cause such a fuss it finally wakes all of us.
One man wakes with dawn in his eyes.
Surely then it multiplies, surely then it multiplies.
– Leeland’s The Great Awakening
It was the perfect song to complement the lesson theme of Climbing For Christ’s 2016 mission trips to visit our Project 1:27 orphans in Malawi and Nepal. C4C teams were...
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Churches rise from the rubble in Nepal
By Gary Fallesen, founding president, Climbing For Christ
Feeling the earth move and seeing the reaction it caused in Kathmandu nearly a year after the devastating earthquake showed us how far from recovery the Nepali people appear to be. It was only a 4.5-magnitude tremblor, but it was the 445th aftershock of 4.0 or more – seemingly constant reminders of the carnage caused on April 29, 2015.
There were other reminders observed by our Mission: Nepal 2016 (Part 1) team:
People wait in Kathmandu’s tent city with empty fuel canisters si...
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“…and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”
– Matthew 16:18 (ESV)
By Gary Fallesen
Founding president, Climbing For Christ
Pastor Duncan Nyozani sold his car for US$2,000 so he could buy a plot of land and be able to put the first thousand dollars toward the building of a new Searchlight Ministries church in southern Malawi.
“We need US$24,000,” said the long-time Climbing For Christ member and ministry partner. “This is a huge sum of money to raise, but we believe God is able to meet ...
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Stonewall: Pastor Harka, left, and workers last week building “on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone” (Ephesians 2:20) for the church at Simikot. (Photo provided by Megh Gurung)
The church at Simikot is under construction in Nepal’s Far West district of Humla. It is the first church to be built there. Rocks are being delivered by donkey and timber has been ordered at the village lumberyard for this church building, which is being funded by Climbing For Christ.
This is the ninth church God has used C4C to bui...
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Mission: Nepal 2016, Part 1
By Gary Fallesen
Climbing For Christ
Friday, April 15 and Saturday, April 16
Leanne, Elaine and I made the long journey back to our homes in Rochester, NY, USA.
Leanne, left, and Elaine with the children at the SARA Children’s Home on Thursday, April 14.
Before leaving Kathmandu, I spent time with brothers Tej and Megh, our Nepali ministry partners, discussing the work that will go on the next few months leading up to Mission: Nepal 2016, Part 2 in September. We are praying for that work and the future of ministry in Nepal.
“Your kingdom...
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SARA Children’s Home. (Photo by Elaine Fallesen)
There are nearly 50 children cared for by Nepali partner ministry SARA outside of Kathmandu. We support SARA and these children through Project 1:27, which is based on James 1:27 (“Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.”). This relationship started in 2011. Mission: Nepal teams have visited the SARA Children’s Home nine times, including our Mission: Nepal 2016, Part 1 team.
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